Lost my two column default page layout with 3.3

Hi Breezy,

Let’s try to track down the front page issue first.

1) Assuming you’re using a static page as front page, for the page assigned as the front page, what Page Template do you have assigned?

2) Assuming the Page Template is “default”, what is the Static Page Layout you have assigned to that page?

There is no out-of-the-box option for a content-on-left, sidebar-on-right layout for static pages. That’s perhaps something I could add.

Now, for the footer copyright: the default copyright text uses the oldest published post to derive the copyright date.

The copyright date specifically is not filterable (something else I should add), but the copyright text itself is, via the oenology_hook_site_footer filter. For example, you could add the following to a Child Theme:

function breezy_site_footer( $site_footer ) {
    // Site name/link
    $site_footer['copyright'] = '<span><a href="' . home_url() . '">' . get_bloginfo('name') . '</a></span> ';
    // Current year
    $site_footer['copyright'] .= '&copy; ' . date('Y');

    // Return
    return $site_footer;
}
add_filter( 'oenology_hook_site_filter', 'breezy_site_footer' );

This will replace the oldest post date with the current year.